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Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle.
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@S Kent Troy
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You want my “charity” you damned well better be poor! Working in the “inner city” for 40 years I had the opportunity to visit many bodegas. After they became used to seeing the “white guy” and I became furniture in the neighborhood, the beer and cigarette sales with food stamps resumed right in front of me.
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The Chicago fire was a highly destructive event, leaving more than a third of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants homeless. Almost 18,000 buildings were consumed by the flames, including the city’s most expensive properties. Critically, from the perspective of the disaster relief scholarship, in 1871 there was no analogue to the present-day, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), meaning that relief efforts had to be decentralized. Moreover, there was no institutionalized source of government financial aid, or a ready-made disaster relief plan that could be implemented. To a large extent, it was up to Chicago’s residents to develop solutions to the calamity that they faced.
Part of the weakness of the central government at the time of the fire was due to the absence of federal income tax. Moreover, as a corollary, there were no tax write-offs associated with charitable donations, meaning that the relief funding needed to be primarily private, and incentivized either by having a direct stake in the outcome, or by pure altruism.
In fact, 57 per cent of the funds secured by those charged with coordinating relief efforts came from private contributions, including individuals, businesses and corporate entities.
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I disagree with the statement: “Part of the weakness of the central government at the time of the fire was due to the absence of federal income tax.” The “income tax” imho is the most destructive socialist imposition on Americans.
The Gooferment has no business being in the “charity industry”. Truly private charity can differentiate between the “welfare farmers” and those in need.
The Gooferment only gives “money” (with strings); private charities (like the Salvation Army and many churches give people what they need more than money (i.e., a support network; things that money just can’t buy).
As a special note, compare what the Salvation Army pays its staff as opposed to the Gooferment or Big Charities. Private charity is low overhead and focused problem solving.
We need less socialism and more individual actions. Americans are very generous people DESPITE the income tax. Imagine what you could do if you had ALL of your paycheck. Argh!
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